The Health Agency reports 2730 new cases based on 28620 tests and 10.7% positivity rate last February 12. Of the cases today, 2627 or 96% of the cases today were within the last 2 weeks. Top regions with most cases were NCR, CALABARZON and Central Visayas in this interval.

Active cases drop to a little more than 76,000 as the cases continue to decline, with almost 94% of the active being asymptomatic or mild at the time of testing.

The shocker on Valentine's Day 2022 are the 164 deaths. Note that of the 164 - 52% or 86 occurred in February while 52 (32%) in January. The remaining 16% were from July to December 2021.

There were 68 duplicates removed from the total case count. Of these, 52 are recoveries. There were 121 cases previously tagged as recoveries were reclassified as deaths after final validation.